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Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced

Posted by timothy on from the vintage-2010 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After evolving over 15 years to get to 1.0, a mere 2 years later and Wine 1.2 is just about here. There have been many many improvements and plenty of new features added. Listing just a few (doing no justice to the complete change set): many new toolbar icons; support for alpha blending in image lists; much more complete shader assembler; support for Arabic font shaping and joining, and a number of fixes for video rendering; font anti-aliasing configuration through fontconfig; and improved handling of desktop link files. Win64 support is the milestone that marks this release. Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here."

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  1. Re:What? by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't that slow when the target keeps moving. 17 years ago, we weren't even using NT, some of us were still using DOS as being "good enough" and the rest of us were using Windows 3.x, now those goals have changed and WINE has to run 32 and 64 bit software written for Vista and Windows 7. 15 years would be a long time for a "dead" platform like the Atari 2600 or the SNES. But Windows is changing and what was "good enough" one year now needs major work to keep up with the programs.

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  2. Re:The Wrong Way by nschubach · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a chicken and egg scenario.

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  3. Re:The Wrong Way by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Insightful
    More aggresively -- WINE is one of the best ways for Linux to embrace, extend, and extinguish -- beat Redmond at their own game.

    In fact, WINE is great for running legacy, closed-source software whose development is long dead with no native build going to be made.

    Which is funny because one of the traditional perceived strengths of Windows is its backwards compatibility.

  4. Re:But Windows 7 Is So Schweet! by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Believe it or not, WINE isn't meant for people who are using Windows... It's great that Windows suits your purposes, I'm happy that you are happy but otherwise don't give a damn. However, it is naive (and terribly offtopic) to suggest that nobody needs to run Windows applications on non-Windows platforms anymore.

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  5. Re:The Wrong Way by jonwil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The way things are going, Solaris will be dead soon too (especially if Oracle keeps doing what its been doing)